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Cloudy tonight and Saturday. Continued chilly. Generally fair and warmer Sunday.
NUMBER 41
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1944
42ND YEAR
Allied Drive Is On to Demolish German Forces of the Rhineland; Seven Armies in 3 to1 Battle
(International News Servicee)
(International News Service)
A gigantic Allied bid to demolish the German armies of the Rhineland and crash through to Cologne and Dusseldorf in overwhelming strength rocked the home soil of Germany today.
The Canadian first army is engaged in cleaning up the Scheldt estuary to open fully the port of Antwerp. The British second army is arrayed solidly along the Maas river and the Zig canal, and is striving to reach the Venlo for a thrust into German Westphalia. The United States first army is battling out of Aachen and is making "excellent progress."
Actual depth and width of first penetrations made in the blistering offensive were not disclosed at headquarters, however, where it was revealed that air support and artillery engaged German aircraft well behind the front during the "very heavy" barrage which preceded the ground assault.
A total of 1,248 prisoners were taken in the Metz sector yesterday for a grand total of 8,396 since General Patton's third army attack was launched.
A general picture from north to south of the great combined operations by the seventh Allied army revealed:
North to South Picture
Ninth Army Inside Germany
The U. S. ninth army is six miles inside Germany, in possession of numerous towns, and is rooting out (continued to page two)
This committee is responsible for the development of a stories of short climes in five significant books given earlier this year throughout the state.
Dr. Evans will meet the joint committee Sunday, when definite plans will be formed for courses on the graduate level in special fields of the School of Medicine.
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Dr. L. J. Evans Will Plan Medic Program With K.U. Officials
A program, designed to meet the needs of Kansas medical men returning from the armed forces will be planned this week-end when Dr. Lester J. Evans, medical associate of The Commonwealth Fund of New York, arrives at the University. Dr. Evans was asked, by the University and the committee in charge of postgraduate medical instruction in the state, to consider plans for the development of a graduate department in the School of Medicine, H. G. Ingham, director of the Extension Division, said.
Dr. Evans will visit the various departments of the School of Medicine in Kansas City today, and will arrive in Lawrence Saturday. Chairmen of the medical science departments at the University will meet Dr. Evans at a luncheon tomorrow, Chancellor Malott has announced.
He will meet with Chancellor D. W. Malott and administrative officers of the University as well as with the committee, which represents the Kansas Medical Society, the State Board of Health, and the University.
Services to Be Held Sunday For University Librarian
Memorial services for Miss Edna Dart, University librarian for 26 years, will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Plymouth Congregational church. Staff members of Watson library will sit as a group at the services.
Governor Talks From KFKU
"Organized by the 1939 legislature, the Kansas Industrial Development Commission has many accomplishments to its credit, the most outstanding being the leadership it exerted in bringing to Kansas more than one-third billion dollars worth of war business," Governor Andrew Schoepel stated in a radio broadcast from station KFKU last night.
The Governor also paid a tribute to Kansas labor when he told his radio audience that there had not been a major strike or shut down in a Kansas war plant since the war began. He also stressed the fact that the Kansas farmers have held up their end of the war work on the food production front.
In referring to the postwar possibilities for Kansas the Governor stated that just as the Commission was prepared for the war, so is Kansas preparing for peace. Surveys indicate that 75 per cent of Kansas plants (not counting the great newly-constructed war plants) do not face any severe conversion problems, and that the management of these plants anticipate no difficulty in maintaining employment after the war at the present or an even better rate.
Governor Schoeppel attended the University of Kansas from 1915 to 1917. He left the University in 1917 to serve in World War I.
Sour Owl Ready Today
Sour Owl Ready Today The Sour Owl will be distributed on the campus late this afternoon and at the Oklahoma game tomorrow afternoon, Clark Henry, editor, announced today. The publication will be sold by the freshman women of the organized and independent houses.
He later wrote the first musical comedy ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, "Of Thee I Sing," which climaxed his success as a writer of popular music.
Gershwin Is Immortalized By His "Porgy and Bess"
One of the first acts of the recently incorporated University of Kansas Research Foundation is to turn over to the public all its patent rights in a new process for the conservation of oil. Prof. Eugene A. Stephenson, executive-director of the Foundation, yesterday made known that he has donated all his rights as patentee to the Research Foundation, and that organization in turn has taken steps to make the method available to the oil industry without any charge.
"Dr. Stephenson and the Research Foundation have made this new process available to the oil industry," said Chancellor Deane W. Malott, "because they believe that the process will aid in exclusion of salt water from oil wells and thereby tend to prevent stream pollution, reduce operating costs generally, and in the long run increase the ultimate production of oil. The University, as a part of the State of Kansas, is concerned with the conservation of the State's natural re-
KU Foundation Gives Patents On Oil to Public
The process is one developed by Dr. Stephenson for the exclusion of water from oil wells by injection of oil into the water-bearing portion of the formation. The three oil companies, Phillips, Cities Service, and Stanolind, which financed part of the research, already have licenses to use the process, but they have assigned all their rights, except shop rights, to the Research Foundation, with the understanding that they shall forever have the use of the process in their own wells without charge, regardless of what negotiations or developments may be made by the University of Kansas Research Foundation.
George Gerschwin, the "Beethoven of Jazz," died July 3, 1937, at the age of 38. Born in Brooklyn, he showed no musical tendencies at all as a boy. His debut into the musical world came later as a song plugger in "Tin Pan Alley" at $15 a week. His first song hit which really "tok" with the country was "Swanese."
In 1824 Paul Whitman decided to prove that the musical world that syncopation had its place on the
"Porgy and Bess," which will be presented in Hoch auditorium Tuesday night, was George Gershwin's last and greatest musical success. It has just completed five return engagements in New York, and is now on its third nationwide tour.
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concert stage. He asked Gershwin to make a contribution to the concert he was planning and Gershwin came forth with "Rhapsody in Blue." The Rhapsody proved to everyone that Gershwin was more than a song writer and thus encouraged he went on to write "A Second Rhapsody," "Concerto in F," and "An American in Paris."
By the middle Thirties, Gershwin had taken his place as America's first great native composer. His most ambitious effort, "Forgy and Bess," was his greatest musical success—and his last.
Featured in "Porgy and Bess" are Etta Moten as Bess, William Franklin as Poryg, Avon Leng as Sportin Life, Edward Matthews, the Eva Jesey Chair and Alexander Smallens, the well-known symphonic concerto leader.
Bonfire Tonight Will Boost Morale For Final Home Game of Season; Moffett's Injury Dims K.U. Hopes
With their last home game of the season only 24 hours away, the Kansas Jayhawks' hopes of stopping the Oklahoma Sooners' Big Six title hopes tomorrow at Memorial stadium dimmed considerably when Jayhawker coach Henry Shenk announced that Charlie Moffett, stellar K.U. half-back and star of the Kansas State game, may not be ready to go tomorrow. A game leg has been slowing the speedy tailback considerably the past few days,
Another 'Sweep' For Rally
Jay Janes and Ku Kus will sweep organized houses again tonight and escort students to the first South Park bonfire rally of the football season.
The rally, honoring the K.U.-O.U. game Saturday, will progress from the South Park bonfire to the WREN building where student enthusiasm will be recorded for a broadcast later in the evening.
Jay Janes and Ku Kus will begin their canvas of houses at 7 p.m., according to Pat Penney, cheerleader. The groups marching to South Park will be met by the band and will parade north on Massachusetts street to rally again in the business district. Cars may be driven in the parade.
Several speakers will be introduced, Miss Penney said. Students who do not live in organized houses are asked to meet at South Park, one block south of Rankin's drug store, shortly after 7 o'clock, she added.
Lt. C. A. Michelman announced today that the Navy V-12's will be granted liberty until 8:30 tonight in order to attend the rally.
The eighty-third All-Musical Vesters, the first this year, will be presented in Hoch auditorium at 4 p.m. Sunday by the School of Fine Arts. Two hundred fifty students will participate in the program which will include organ, Glee Club, A Capella Choir, and orchestra selections.
Vespers Will Include Three Organizations
The complete program follows "Second Concerto in B Flat." (Handel), by Guy Criss Simpson; "Silent Strings" (Bantock-O'Shea), "Nymphs and Shepherds" (Purcell-Harris), "Summer Evening" (arranged by Palmengr) by the University Women's Glee Club with Norma Jean Lutz as soloist and Miss Irene Peabody as director; "Quintet, Op. 20" (Edgar Stillman-Kelley), by Waldemar Geltch, first violin; Nadyne Lohr, second violin, Edna Hopkins, viola, D. M. Swarthout, cello, Ruth Orcutt, piano; "O Vos Omnes" (Vittorcult), "We Sing to Thee" (Tcherepin), "Cherubim Song" (Tschaikowsky), by the University A Capella Choir directed by Dean Swarbout; and "Capricorn Pollen" (Tchaikovsky), by the University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Russell L. Wiley.
and the latest report was none too good.
Only other injury of any consequence on the Crimson and Blue squad is Lee Gregory's bruised hip, which has been keeping him on the sidelines all week. Changes in the K.U. lineup include Gordon Reynolds at left end, Dan Chase at left tackle, and the backfield post left vacant by Moffett. If he is still unable to start tomorrow, the slot will be filled by either Bob Miller or Kenneth Danneberg.
Rally Tonight
A student rally organized by the Ku-Ku's, Jay-Janes, and cheerleaders will be held tonight in South park at 7:00 as a prelude to the battle. A feature of the event will be a large bonfire on the baseball diamond.
Coach Dewey "Snorter" Luster will bring a full strength first team into Lawrence tomorrow. Darald Lebow, fine halfback and candidate for All-American honors, is back in the starting lineup after missing nearly all of the Missouri and Iowa State games. Charley Heard will also be in their pounding at the Kansas line. The rugged Sooner wingback missed the entire Missouri game, and might have made a big difference in the score of the contest.
The forty-second consecutive meeting of the two teams tomorrow will see the Jayhawks striving to even the standing score between the two elevens, the Sooners having taken 19 of the contests and the Kansas 18. Four games ended in ties. The last time the Crimson and Blue tapped the Sooners was back in 1937, when the Oklahomaans were edged out, 6-3. Last year the lads from Norman rode to victory 26-13, though being pushed hard the whole game.
Full O.U. Team Coming
Entertainment between halfs will be presented by the University band and the Jay James, who will present a patriotic number. Kick-off is
Library Has Display In Weaver's Window
The University library is helping to promote Book Week through a "Read for a Better World" display in Weaver's window this week. Twelve other book exhibits, representing Lawrence organizations, have been set up along Massachusetts.
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The K.U. display was prepared by Mildred Hershey, reference librarian, and Miss Esther Norman, head of the circulation department of the University library. Books on post-war planning, America's participation in the war, ppoo problems of various countries and treatment to be accorded them, are the exe-